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The Purpose of the First World War

War Aims and Military Strategies

Holger Afflerbach (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 258 Seiten

2015
De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Verlag)
978-3-11-034622-0 (ISBN)

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Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.

Holger Afflerbach, University of Leeds.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2015
Reihe/Serie	Schriften des Historischen Kollegs ; 91
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 235 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Schlagworte	Aufsatzsammlung • Erster Weltkrieg • First World War • Geschichte • Kongress • Kriegsziel • Militärgeschichte • military history • München <2013> • Strategie • Weltkrieg • World War, 1914-1918
ISBN-10	3-11-034622-2 / 3110346222
ISBN-13	978-3-11-034622-0 / 9783110346220
Zustand	Neuware